In my last blog, I talked about leaving comments on blogs in order to get the blog owners to notice you, and consequently link to you. Nowhere in that blog did I tell you to e-mail a bunch of sites and ask them to add you to their blogroll. (A blogroll is a list of blogs that a site will put into their sidebar, and that list of blogs usually corresponds very closely to the topic of that blog, meaning you likely won’t find a blog about politics in the blogroll of a cooking blog, and vice-versa.) E-mailing other blogs … Continue reading →

Here we discussed what page ranking was, and here we discussed how Google determines your page ranking. Now let’s figure out how to raise your Google ranking. As I already said, Google rewards people for incoming links, and the high ranked the page is that is linking to you, the more Google rewards you. So it seems like it would only make sense to go after the really high ranking blogs (a 6 or higher) and ignore everyone else. Although this makes sense on the surface, it doesn’t actually work, because a high ranking blog will be inundated with requests … Continue reading →

As I just covered, the higher the page ranking, the more traffic a website receives. This is important to you, the blogger, because if you write an article for a website that has a low page ranking (a 0 or a 1) then the exposure for that article will be minimal at best. If you put that article up on a website that has a high page ranking (a 5 or higher) then you are going to receive quite a bit more traffic, for the same exact article. Since traffic usually means ad revenue, you want traffic. I promise, you … Continue reading →